On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 3:30 PM Simon Schröder via Std-Proposals <
std-proposals_at_[hidden]> wrote:

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> On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 3:01 PM Peter Bindels via Std-Proposals <
> std-proposals_at_[hidden]> wrote:
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>> and ideally output documentation with C++26 reflection.
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> I also thought about reflection to get documentation from (user-defined)
> attributes. Can we already write to files in compile time code?
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You can create code at compile time, that then outputs documentation when
run. It's a minor difference but IMO not impactful - and arguably better.
You can reflect on structs used in a web server and output Swagger data for
them, and be guaranteed that your website and the swagger "file" in it are
the same.